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Published on: March 2, 2015
Ophthalmic artery originating from basilar artery: a rare variant
Burak Sade1, Donatella Tampieri, Gérard Mohr
1Division of Neurosurgery, Sir Mortimer B. Davis--Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Chemin de la Côte Ste. Catherine, Montréal, Québec H3T 1E2, Canada.
Abstract:
The basilar artery as the origin of the ophthalmic artery is extremely rare. A 48-year-old patient had undergone angiography for suspicion of a right middle cerebral artery aneurysm. No aneurysm was detected. Vertebral artery injections demonstrated the left ophthalmic artery originating from the basilar trunk. Current embryologic theories fall short in explaining this entity. Awareness of neuroanatomic variations is of paramount importance in diagnosis and treatment of vascular lesions of the brain.
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